<p>okay so here are my extra curriculars, I may add a few, just letting you know:
4 years of viola, 2 years private lessons
the orchestra that I am in has won 3 platinum awards, and I have received special reconition</p>
<p>I am on My School's Literary Magazine</p>
<p>I am on the School's Newspaper</p>
<p>I was chosen for a Young Leaders Association in my town, which is basically community service</p>
<p>I have been in Girl Scouts for 8 years, and have completed over 50 hours of community service while participating</p>
<p>I have won a poetry contest</p>
<p>I do field hockey 3 times a week</p>
<p>I do tennis 3 times a week....</p>
<p>I almost participated in like a summer program at John Hopkins iver this past Summer, but the plans fell through sadly</p>
<p>and, I think that that is it, but I may add more
and I am applying to the Hotchkiss School</p>
<p>Plates rate, it will be appreciated</p>
<p>I also have almost straight A’s, so PLEASE comment and tell me your opinion,whether or not you think that those are enough extra curriculars! PLEASE rate my chances, and I am also a child of an alumni as well as a URM! Your input is appreciated, believe me</p>
<p>having alot of extra curriculars is great. And you obviously have a bunch.
However, what the schools want even more than the numerous extracurriculars is wether or not you are extremely talented at one of them. Quality, not quantity.</p>
<p>viola is a great instrument to play because it is rare</p>
<p>Thats exactly why I chose it, everyone else chose the violin</p>
<p>Please reply people, give me your opinions!!! I’m also considering other schools in the top 10 east Coast schools, tell me if that idea is ludicrous or actually reasonable.</p>
<p>Except everyone on CC seems to play the viola… It’s weird</p>
<p>I play it and so does Urbanflop and others.</p>
<p>Good ECs, better than mine actually although my strengths lay elsewhere. I was accepted at Hotchkiss…</p>
<p>mayb its becuz we all chose to play something that is rare so schools would accept us…idk</p>
<p>thanks! congrats on getting into Hotchkiss…im hoping that the legacy thing will boost my chances a little…</p>
<p>When I choose to play the viola, I hadn’t even heard of BS and wasn’t even thinking about it being rare…</p>
<p>me neither, I didn’t mean for it to sound like I only played it for a BS. Playing a string instrument is kind of required in my family, my sister plays the bass, my brother the cello…</p>
<p>bump…hehehe…this is fun</p>
<p>I wanted to play the violin, but my music teacher wanted me to do the viola since my friend was doing it, so I did.</p>
<p>my teacher didnt have a viola on hand but the violin sounded too high for me and then all these years i have realized how good it is to continue since it is rare</p>
<p>what grade are you applying for? your ecs look great, but long-time committment is going to add quite some weight to your apps, but the longest ec you’ve been doing is girls scout, so i would put some emphasis on that, what about any awards that you’ve won, leadership titles, school grades, standardize test score----all are quite important.</p>
<p>well now I’ll be applying for the 11-12 school year so I’ll add a year on to each of those…but I also plan to join a ton of clubs at my local HS next year because they all seem so interesting…I was nervous if that would look suspicious if I add on a multitude of new activities…
Ummm leadership not as much besides that one conference last year
for awards, does Girl scout awards count because I have my bronze and close to silver.
The orchestra that I play in has one platinum in various state wide competitions, but that was last year, hopefully that will help.</p>
<p>Also, I was wondering if I apply as a sophomore, could I talk about things in 8th grade, or do they just care about freshman year? Thanks!
-PD</p>
<p>Rare instruments are useful eventuallyyyyyyy</p>
<p>polodolly,</p>
<p>Yes even as a sophomore they will look back to middle school records. My d applied to 7 schools and each one wanted info just like applying to 1st yr.</p>
<p>IMHO, don’t jump into too many clubs, it looks like you are just “padding” your resume. Find 1 or 2 EC in areas that you are passionate about. Show depth. </p>
<p>My d’s “hook” is dance and her 100+ volunteer hours are at her dance school working with younger kids and being a mentor. As I say “she is committed to the dance”. She was successful and got into 5 bs.</p>
<p>btw she is not a 99% SSAT but straight A’s.</p>